finished on my plots ,just watching my Christmas veggies sweeten up ready , goose was still wandering around at 7 am when i opened up the sheds ,she and 3 of her mates joined each other in a hanging about sesi0on in the cold store by 745am 4 geese 6 capons 6 normal well fed chickens 1 guinea fowl and a couple of norfolk black turkeys all plucked on the bigham by 9.30 am cooling down days werk done in a couple hours i had to go on a shoot meeting up at the second drive of the morning . my first job on meeetin them was to bollock a gun for low shooting .he though he had got away with it and didnt see me at the back making my way across the field ,the beaters were fortunate that they was not closer to the wood edge , had tey been someone could well have been blinded for Christmas . fining him £50 he payed up with a humph complaint ,i did remind him that had the beaters been hit he would have been dismissed from the field with no recompense . a long hard freezing day ended none to soon for my liking 3.30pm saw me paying all the beaters there £20 and a brace wishing them who i would not see till next year a happy holiday , i then found to my delight that someone had shot the white pheasant and she had been fined £25 also so i was £75 up for the day , so making sure the 200 birds and 10 mixed was hung to cool and be ready for morning i left to come home, thats when my troubles started .driving over a small flood at henstead ford i saw to my disbelief a ffffff lunatic in a daeoo flash by to close and then splash water so dfar up my car i saw nothing as i left the road on my side driving into a drainage cut in the verge my right wheel slamming into the rut . the ass who put me there stopped on the other side of the ford ,out got a kid of 17 yrs . apologising that he hadnt passed his test long etc etc etc he offered to help me get the car out which we did .my front end right side crunched in just the wing .easy to pull out so i could get on my way . swapping details i got home 45 mins late . i called the garage to come and check the damage . thats easy he said i can do that by morning .. £75 he asked .. bang goes my blooming bonus ... :x and my grand daughter asks did u have fun nandad ?/ :roll: